The act, said to be the nation's most stringent, prohibits school administrators from retaliating against advisors for trying to protect student press freedoms.By Robert J. Lopez
January 4, 2009
Broward high school newspaper censored
Friday, March 14, 2008
Students at a high school in Coconut Creek are upset at what they call censorship by campus administrators. WLRN Miami Herald reporter Joshua Johnson has details.
Students Rally for Free Expression
Chronicle of the fight to keep student journalism in Miami-Dade County Public Schools free and uncensored.
(Miami Herald archives. Please see your school's media specialist for the password and login.)
“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.”—Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, **Ashcroft V. Free Speech Coalition** (00-795) 198 F.3d 1083, affirmed.
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." — Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas:
“Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime ...” — Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, dissenting Ginzberg v. United States, 383 U.S. 463 (1966).
Articles & Supreme Court decisions
Articles
Schools abridging free-speech rights, Demoines Register, February 24, 2009
Journalism Kids Do Better: What Research Tells Us about High School Journalism
http://www.naafoundation.org/upload/foundation_pdf/journalism-matters-exec-summary.pdf
You can find the full report here:
http://www.naafoundation.org/ScholasticPress/High-School-Journalism-Matters.aspx
New California law protects school journalism advisors
The act, said to be the nation's most stringent, prohibits school administrators from retaliating against advisors for trying to protect student press freedoms.By Robert J. LopezJanuary 4, 2009
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-advisors4-2009jan04,0,7158385.story
Students in noose incident suspended
Pembroke Pines: 6 students suspended, not charged in noose incident
Broward high school newspaper censored
Friday, March 14, 2008
Students at a high school in Coconut Creek are upset at what they call censorship by campus administrators. WLRN Miami Herald reporter Joshua Johnson has details.
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Students Rally for Free Expression
Chronicle of the fight to keep student journalism in Miami-Dade County Public Schools free and uncensored.
(Miami Herald archives. Please see your school's media specialist for the password and login.)
Student Press Law Center - Legal Guide for the Private School Press
Voice of Freedom, from Principal Leadership
Reasons why a principal should defend freedom of speech
AOL Search - Free speech schools Miami-Dade
Supreme Court decisions on book banning
“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.”—Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, **Ashcroft V. Free Speech Coalition** (00-795) 198 F.3d 1083, affirmed.
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." — Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas:
“Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime ...” — Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, dissenting Ginzberg v. United States, 383 U.S. 463 (1966).